Poussay is a common French, located in the department of the the Vosges and the area Lorraine.
Its inhabitants is called Porsuavitains ( Portus Suavis ).
Geography
The commune of Poussay is in the geographical area of the under-Vosgean plain. The site offers a multitude of landscapes with the valley of the Madon and its many pilot hillocks (mounts). The village is located in the valley of Madon, to 2 km in the north of the town of Mirecourt, on the top of a slope to 300 meters of altitude on left bank of Madon. It overhangs the river which curves in the middle of a rich and luxuriant vegetation… hedges of willows, poplars, alders.
History
The name of the village would come from Portus Suavis , which gave Porsas , then Poursas and finally Poussay . In this village, drawn up on a calcareous spur which dominates the valley of Madon and that the road of Nancy crosses, Montaigne remained when it had gone to Plombières, then in Italy.This village has a historical last rich person. Each time left its trace. Thus an old Roman way, an old cemetery mérovingien and a village revealing are côtoient its history with each step.
Berthold, bishop of Toul of 996 with 1019, decides in 1018 to establish in this place a monastery of nuns bénédictines. It will be thus the fourth foundation of this kind in Lorraine, after Remiremont, Épinal and Bouxières-with-Ladies. Hermann, his successor on the episcopal throne will continue the building work then, with died of the latter in 1026, it was Brunon de Dagsbourg (or of Dabo). This last became pope under the name of Leon IX. The May 15th 1026, it devotes the abbey, after having transferred the remainders from Sainte Carries out there. This holy lived as a hermit between the villages of Puzieux and Poussay at the 4th century.
One said while joking: “Ladies of Remiremont, chambermaids of Épinal, maidservants of Poussay”. For to enter, it was necessary however sixteen districts of nobility. The abbess was invested by the Pope and its goods extended on about fifteen villages.
The church had several invaluable objects by including one évangéliaire copied with Reichenau towards 990, offered by the évèque founder and enriched since by the pope Leon IX who offered a Byzantine ivory plate representing the virgin to the child, Hodigitria. This ivory is framed of a edge of gold carrying four figures worked with pushed back (Christ trônant, holy Pierre and André, and co. Menne) and of four plates raised of enamels, fine pearls, gems: amethyst, emeralds, jaspers, hematites) With the back, the binding consists of a engraved money plate. The figure of Christ illustrates the psalm " on the deer and the viper you will walk, you will press the lion cub and the dragon " . The évangéliaire is held closed by two gilded money clasps with reasons zoomorphes. Inside several made illuminations with Reichenau are. When the abbey was destroyed with the revolution (1793) the évangéliaire was deposited with the library of Mirecourt, then transferred to the National library in 1842, where it is always with the " Latin " Fund; under N°10514. In 2005, it was presented to the public with the Museum of Louvre during a traditional exposition to " art with the Middle Ages ". It is represented in a book published by the BN, heading " Invaluable bindings " (Herscher).
Since 1598, under the impulse of saint Pierre Fourier and thanks to Mesdames Catherine of Fresnel and Judith d' Aspremont, two nuns of the bénédictines abbey, Poussay accommodates the first school for girls “as well poor as rich”. Happy the Alix the Clerk and his partners teach free with the young girls the principles of a good education. Soon all Lorraine will be covered with a network of small schools…
Administration
Demography
Curiosities
- the well of Poussay is the large local treasure: it goes back to XIIee century with an urban whole of a great authenticity.
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Born in XVIe century (1598) of the will of the ladies of the Vosgean chapter of Poussay, the fair of Poussay is currently the second agricultural fair of France. It is held the first weekend of All Saints' day and accommodates more than 1000 exhibitors (farmers and street pedlars).
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the house Sonrier : the sonrier was the treasurer of the Abbey. The family has the portrait of Pierre Fourier (holy of Mattaincourt, originating in Mirecourt). One discovered this portrait hidden in a wall undoubtedly at the time of the revolution. On the walls external of the house, one can see a sundial and armorial bearings.
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Gone of the Ladies : certain limes are very old. On the right, while going up, the garden of the abbess. A little further, the esplanade which dominates the ravine.
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Remainders of the abbey church.
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Parish church current. The chorus is the old Saint-Andrew vault. One can see there:
Animation
Fair 2006: October 21st and 22nd, 408e edition.
Famous characters
External bonds
- Site of the Community of communes
- Poussay on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Poussay on the site of INSEE
- Poussay on the site of Quid
- Localization of Poussay on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Poussay on Mapquest
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